Develop strategies and tools to organize and advance citizenship to improve representative democracy.
Vision
A nation of free people committed to advancing and capable of maintaining a just and lasting society.
Goals and objectives
Organize and increase civic activity among non-mobilized voters
- Establish a new shared national purpose to improve government
- Raise awareness about the root causes of political dysfunction
- Provide tools and organizing opportunities to create positive political change
- Direct activity toward programs successfully driving social and political change
Recast governing bodies with virtuous, independent-minded representatives
- Establish virtue and independence as essential qualities of political leadership
- Organize an independent electoral counterweight to the major political parties
- Advance and support leaders who can govern independently in a partisan climate
Improve public discourse on issues essential to maintaining democracy
- Establish expectation that representatives explain their policy positions and votes
- Profile tactics and policy ideas that can adequately address underlying problems
- Encourage journalists to reliably cover problems, causes, and interventions
- Increase the use of open-access platforms fostering intelligent debate